Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:30:32 +0100 | | From | David Gómez <> | | Subject | Re: Improved console UTF-8 support for the Linux kernel? |
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Hi Simon ;),
> The current UTF-8 keyboard input (for the console) of the Linux kernel > does not support "composing" or writing characters with accents.
Yes, i recently find it out when trying to switch all my system to UTF-8. But the patch from Chris you mention below works very well for me (and for anybody that needs to type compose characters for languages based in the latin1 encoding i guess).
> affects quite a few languages that require accents (French, German, > Danish, Swedish?, Greek, cyrillic-based?, others?.).
Spanish ;))
> Chris Heath has a set of incremental patches > (http://chris.heathens.co.nz/linux/utf8.html) to enhance Unicode for the > console. > I noticed that he contacted this list in May 2003 > (http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2003/May/7956.html) but > unfortunatelly the discussion was diverted to coding styles.
Chris told me in the utf-8 mailing list that he doesn't think his patch to make the kernel generate UTF-8 characters in the compose tables will be included in the main kernel. Basically because is not a full solution that cover all the cases... But there is nothing better, so maybe it will be a good idea to include it. Current state is, for 2.6 kernel, text console is broken in UTF-8 mode because it cannot generate UTF-8 composed characters.
> Is there an interest for re-submission of mentioned patches for > inclusion in the kernel (yeah, provided coding style is "normalised")?
At least, I am _really_ interested :)
regards,
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